AECOM Tishman served as CM for Brookfield Properties’ One and Two Manhattan West, the gateway towers to the new 7 MSF Manhattan West development constructed atop a 2.6-acre post-tensioned deck spanning the rail lines that lead into Penn Station. Designed by SOM, the pair of tapering buildings creates a distinct profile on the Manhattan skyline. Both are targeting LEED Gold and powered by renewable electricity sourced from hydropower dams upstate.
The 67-story, 2 MSF One Manhattan West rises 995 feet and is made of steel frame construction with a reinforced concrete structural core that helps anchor it atop the rail yards beneath. Its near twin, the 58-story, 1.9 MSF Two Manhattan West, rises 935 feet and is the final component in the complex, which also features a two-acre landscaped plaza flanked by ground-level retail. Our work at the site also included the transformation of the late Brutalist mid-rise 450 W. 33rd Street – the complex’s anchor building to the west – into 5 Manhattan West.